Day: 14 May 2025

Lab to Market: Current Status and the Future of MOF-based Carbon Capture

Vijay Raman

Author: Dr Shababa Selim, Senior Technology Analyst at IDTechEx Carbon capture is fast emerging as a key application of MOFs, resulting from the high CO2 selectivity, cycling stability, and low energy requirements for regeneration. MOF-based technologies offer the potential for significant reductions in operational costs compared to incumbent systems such as amine-scrubbing. With commercial systems expected to enter the market before the turn of the decade, IDTechEx's report, “Metal-Organic Frameworks 2025-2035: Markets, Technologies, and Forecasts“, predicts a nearly 50-fold growth in the demand for MOFs in carbon capture between 2027 and 2035.…

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Spectrum Instrumentation, Ultrafast AWGs with Ethernet control for wideband signal generation

Vijay Raman

Ultrafast AWGs with Ethernet control for wideband signal generation Spectrum Instrumentation presents new AWGs with 10 GS/s output rate and 16-bit resolution. Spectrum Instrumentation has introduced four new Arbitrary Waveform Generators (AWGs) in its DN2.63x NETBOX series, delivering output rates up to 10 GS/s with 16-bit resolution. With easy control via Ethernet, these high-speed instruments connect directly to PCs, laptops or even the company network. Designed for automated and remote testing, they are ideal for wideband signal generation from DC to 2.5 GHz.  Caption: Spectrum now offers 35 variants of the…

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MetaGuru, MetaGuru Unveils Full-Cycle HR AI Agent at COMPUTEX 2025 in Strategic Alliance With aTalent and BlendVision

Vijay Raman

Comprehensive AI-Driven HR Platform Covers Talent Acquisition to Succession Planning, Targeting Global Enterprises With Scalable, Sustainable Solutions In response to the growing challenges of talent acquisition and retention faced by enterprises, MetaGuru, a subsidiary of MetaAge (TW.6112), is partnering with aTalent, a leading brand in AI-driven talent management, and BlendVision, KKCompany’s proprietary brand specializing in AI multimedia applications, to debut its full-cycle HR AI Agent solution at Computex 2025.The three parties are integrating AI technologies across the entire HR lifecycle—including recruitment, labor and wage cycles, performance management, learning, training, and succession…

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​Energy-efficient baggage handling

Vijay Raman

 NORD ECO service uncovers savings potential at airports. NORD-NORD-ECO-Box.jpg: With its NORD ECO service, NORD helps its customers to achieve an energy-efficient system design Image: NORD DRIVESYSTEMSTo support airports in designing energy-efficient baggage handling systems, NORD DRIVESYSTEMS offers the NORD ECO service. The North German company thus makes a significant contribution to achieving the climate targets in this sector.NORD is a system supplier of innovative drive solutions for more than 100 industries. With the NORD ECO service, the drive specialist has already helped many companies to improve their system’s performance and energy efficiency through modernisation…

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India Launches 3nm Chip Centres

Vijay Raman

Union Minister for Electronics and IT, Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw, has inaugurated India’s first 3-nanometer (3nm) chip design centres in Noida and Bengaluru, operated by Renesas Electronics India Private Limited. This milestone positions India at the forefront of advanced semiconductor design, marking a significant leap from previous 7nm and 5nm technologies.  The 3nm chips, known for their high transistor density—up to 250 million per square nanometre—offer enhanced performance and energy efficiency. These advancements are crucial for next-generation devices, including smartphones, laptops, servers, and medical equipment.  This initiative is part of India’s…

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India’s Major Ports: A Decade of Remarkable Progress

Vijay Raman

India’s major ports reaching historic milestones in FY 2024-25 marks a major leap forward in the country’s maritime infrastructure and trade capacity. This achievement reflects significant improvements in cargo handling, infrastructure expansion, digital modernization, and operational efficiency. As a result, India’s ports are becoming more competitive on the global stage, facilitating faster trade flows, attracting foreign investment, and supporting overall economic growth.   Among commodities handled at Major Ports, Petroleum, Oil, and Lubricants (POL)—including crude, petroleum products, and LPG/LNG—led the charts with a volume of 254.5 million tonnes (29.8%), followed…

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German Startup Completes First European Inflatable Heat Shield Test

Vijay Raman

What a German Start-Up's First Test Could Mean for the Space Industry Author: Mika Takahashi, Technology Analyst at IDTechEx On April 22nd, SpaceX's Bandwagon-3 rideshare mission took off from Cape Canaveral. Alongside the normal payload of satellites, there was a capsule from a German space start-up – Phoenix 1. This was the inaugural payload of ATMOS Space GmbH, and the first orbital test of its inflatable aerodynamic decelerator (IAD). To re-enter from low-Earth orbit, most spacecraft either use a tile-based system or an ablator. Tile-based heat shields, such as those used…

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